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Talking Shop: Slippery palms, oily fingers
20 May 2024 12:35 AM ISTA debate is sautéing at our dinner tables. Spats over spices are overshadowed by a tussle that is deep-fried and appears motivated, steeped as it is...
Talking Shop: Didley Squat. Desi Rot.
12 May 2024 7:46 PM ISTIt is invigorating to see even dash-a-click global TV serials being used to spread societal messages and question red-tapism. At home, this is quite...
Talking Shop: With a gun to the head
5 May 2024 7:00 PM ISTThree years ago, we were promised continued life and good health if we took a vaccine jab. We complied. Today, some are dropping dead. Who do we...
Talking Shop: Apathetic. Therapeutic. Copacetic.
28 April 2024 10:42 PM ISTThese are troublesome times, calling for wisdom beyond the ordinary. Time to sharpen minds, not unsheathe knives. Watch it, the election-mongers are...
Talking Shop: The price of papad
21 April 2024 4:42 PM ISTThis humble Indian food accompaniment can teach us some tough life lessons. One is that when you take things for granted, they tend to blow up in your...
Talking Shop: Cortile volatile
14 April 2024 11:45 PM ISTRoadsides, bylanes, aisles, alleys, courtyards and all venues for gatherings are running amok in India, buzzing with murmur or crescendo. It is...
Talking Shop: Happy thoughts
8 April 2024 1:21 AM ISTEnough bad news and all that balderdash. Today, let’s be positive, even if it has to be borderline bolistic. After all, the ultimate goal in life is...
Talking Shop: Too true to tell
1 April 2024 12:27 AM ISTA fast-turning-flatulent list of detractors globally is doling out sermons to India on matters internal. It’s time to take a stand, whichever way we...
Talking Shop: Enfants Terribles
24 March 2024 10:36 PM ISTIf they could think for themselves, infants would be petrified. They can be poor and lack food and veggies, or rich and curdle into a smorgasbord of...
Talking Shop: Doc comes a-calling
17 March 2024 9:29 PM ISTA perfect amalgam of the old and the new, online HealthTech start-ups in the country are bringing back to our homes the good-old and trusted family...
Talking Shop: Indian-Canadian Bhai-Bhai
10 March 2024 9:15 PM ISTA fast-shrinking Global Village is seeing a common malaise knitting India and Canada together. Back-breaking rise in food prices is seeing eating...
Talking Shop: Life was once simple
3 March 2024 11:03 PM ISTThe world is turning upside down. Yesterday’s children’s problems seem to be a cakewalk now, as many battle addictions, pregnancy & even commit...